Brother Stephen Austin November 3rd 1793 – December 27th 1836 Member of: Louisiana Lodge #109 at St. Genevieve, Missouri American empresario born in Virginia and raised in southeastern Missouri. Known as the “Father of Texas”, and the founder of Texas, he...
Brother Brigham Young June 1st 1801 – August 29th 1877 Member of: Nauvoo Masonic Lodge, Nauvoo, Illinois American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the second President of The Church of Jesus Christ of...
Brother John Rae September 30th 1813 – July 22nd 1893 Scottish surgeon who explored parts of northern Canada, found the final portion of the Northwest Passage (Rae Strait, named after him) and reported the fate of the Franklin Expedition. In 1846–47 he explored the...
Brother John McDouall Stuart September 7th 1815 – June 5th 1866 Member of: Lodge of Truth, #933 North Adelaide, Austrillia Scottish explorer and one of the most accomplished of all Australia’s inland explorers. Stuart led the first successful expedition to...
Brother Gordon Cooper March 6th 1927 – October 4th 2004 Member of: Carbondale Lodge, No. 82, in Carbondale, Colorado American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned...
